On Thu, 2020-10-15 at 20:58 +0000, Dirk Krautschick wrote:
> because of a migration from DB2 we have a lot of timestamps like
>
> 9999-12-31-00.00.00.000000
>
> What would be the best way to handle this in Postgres also related
> to overhead and performance (index usage?).
>
> Or is
>
> TO_TIMESTAMP('9999-12-31-00.00.00.000000', 'YYYY-MM-DD-HH24.MI.SS.US')
>
> the only way? And isn't it possible to define this like NLS parameters in
> Oracle
> system wide?
I would replace them with 'infinity', which is a valid timestamp value
in PostgreSQL.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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